On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:48, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 01:44, Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> reportbug uses the package version when reporting bugs, but this might > >>> include a bin NMU extension, e.g. +b1. As debbugs/our BTS tracks bugs > >>> at the source level, the bin NMU part should probably be stripped when > >>> reporting bugs against Debian.
No, it should not. The BTS knows how to resolve binary versions to source versions, and does all of this automatically. > > I wondered about this as well before filing the bug; on IRC > > (#debian-devel-fr), the consensus was slightly in favor of > > reporting it against reportbug, but I know it probably affects > > other bug reporting tools. > > > > Changing debbugs to track binary version is really hard, We don't currently; there was some discussion of allowing a bug to be associated with a particular set of binary versions, but that is a feature with relatively limited utility. [Such bugs would be fixed by any upload, and would have no automatic propogation.] Furthermore, the cases where a bug is associated with a particular binary, and not the source package as well is a fairly small minority of the bugs that are reported; only expert users and/or package maintainer would be making use of this feature anyway. > should we strip-off the binNMU extension from the package version in > reportbug? No. The BTS is more than capable of resolving binary versions to source versions, and knows far better what the source version of a particular binary version than an arbitrary regex in reportbug. Don Armstrong -- Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars has to be the HP-48 series of calculators. They'll run almost anything. And if they can't, while I'll just plug a Linux box into the serial port and load up the HP-48 VT-100 emulator. -- Jeff Dege, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
